Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Why I chose to read Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
I chose to read “Here Comes Everybody” for my ITO class because it covers the significance of blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 features, which will be helpful for increasing my own understanding of Web 2.0. I chose it becayse it seemed to be the most relevent book to our class out of the 3 books (also Groundswell and Wikinomics).
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Now that we're creating blogs, wikis, and twittering do you feel that you'll see more relevance in what you're reading in your book? I'm still pretty new to the whole blog thing and I've never read one before this semester so we'll see what the book has to say about them. Over hyped fad or the next medium of communication? -Jono P!
From what I have read it seems like blogs are more than an "overhyped fad". I think it really might be the next medium of communication. Since everyone and anyone can be their own media outlet these days, there is no limit to what can be published. Some day we are not going to have printed material, because it is too limited. Digital text is different...
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